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The Seattle Times
Tuesday, February 10, 2004
E.J. Dionne / Syndicated columnist
And did he mention he's a 'war president'?
WASHINGTON — "I'm a war president."
On those words, President Bush will stand or fall.
Bush's interview this weekend on "Meet the Press" was excellent theater. For the first half of his encounter with Tim Russert, the president seemed so uneasy that you began to think he was a little scared of his interrogator. Russert could not be undone by American troops or negative ads or innuendoes spread by aides and allies. The president had to face him alone.
Bush was determined to stay on message: The war in Iraq was justified even if the weapons of mass destruction that were the main target of the war didn't exist.
Bush admitted he was saying the same thing over and over. "Now, I know I'm getting repetitive," he said at one point. "I don't want to sound like a broken record," he said a few minutes later.
What mattered was the "context" in which he made decisions. "This is all in the context of war"; "I made a decision, based upon that intelligence, in the context of the war against terror"; "every potential harm to America had to be judged in the context of this war on terror."
And the context he had in mind was the moment Bush hopes to bring voters back to, again and again and again: "I'm dealing with a world in which we have gotten struck by terrorists with airplanes."
So because of 9-11, it really doesn't matter what Bush said before the war, or what the intelligence actually showed, or whether Saddam Hussein had those weapons. If you understand the "context" of a world in which the United States has been struck by "terrorists with airplanes," anything that Bush decides should be done is, by definition, something that must be done. He's a war president. Don't forget it.
The strange thing is that while Bush is determined not to repeat the mistakes his father made 12 years ago, he is in the process of repeating, almost precisely, the first Bush administration's fatal mistake.
The president and Karl Rove, his top political adviser, see Bush 41's problem as his estrangement from the Republicans' conservative political base. The first Bush raised taxes, so this Bush will cut them once, twice, many times. The social conservatives didn't trust the elder Bush. So this Bush will make sure that they keep faith with him as a man who keeps the faith.
Here's what's missing from this analysis: The first Bush didn't lose because of defections from the right. He lost because mainstream Americans of middle-class means decided that their president just didn't understand much of anything about their lives. They were worried about their jobs, their health care, their pensions, their housing and sending their kids to college. Voters freely conceded that the first President Bush was first rate when it came to foreign policy. That just didn't happen to be what they voted on in November of 1992.
The current President Bush is in the process of putting himself in the same place. If Americans want a war president, he's their man. But in light of the failure to find those weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, many voters now wonder whether that was a war that needed to be fought.
Sure, everybody is happy that Saddam is gone. But a great many Americans share a concern that Russert raised with Bush: "There are lots of madmen in the world. Fidel Castro, in Iran, in North Korea, in Burma, and yet we don't go in and take down those governments."
Bush's answer that "every situation requires a different response" did not dispose of the question.
In the meantime, Bush is so focused on being our "war president" that he seems to lack passion when he talks about health care or any other domestic issue except tax cuts.
Do not for an instant underestimate the capacity of Bush and Rove to find ingenious ways of focusing our minds on terror by the last three weeks of the campaign. They played Democrats for chumps on security issues in 2002. They're certain they can do it again.
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From 5/29/1952 ( Harry Truman - Letter to Senator Maybank on the Atomic Energy Program ) To 10/28/2002 is 18414 days
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From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 1/17/1991 ( the date of record of my United States Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 also known as Matthew Kline for official duty and also known as Wayne Newman for official duty ) is 9207 days
From 5/29/1952 ( Harry Truman - Letter to Senator Maybank on the Atomic Energy Program ) To 10/28/2002 is 18414 days
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From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 1/17/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Persian Gulf War begins as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) is 9207 days
From 5/29/1952 ( the first combat mission in-flight refueling operation ) To 10/28/2002 is 18414 days
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From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 1/17/1991 ( the date of record of my United States Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 also known as Matthew Kline for official duty and also known as Wayne Newman for official duty ) is 9207 days
From 5/29/1952 ( the first combat mission in-flight refueling operation ) To 10/28/2002 is 18414 days
18414 = 9207 + 9207
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 1/17/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Persian Gulf War begins as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) is 9207 days
From 5/25/1990 ( premiere US film "Fire Birds" ) To 10/28/2002 is 4539 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 4/7/1978 ( Jimmy Carter - Enhanced Radiation Weapons Statement by the President ) is 4539 days
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From 4/3/1962 ( premiere US TV series pilot "McHales Navy":: series pilot "Seven Against The Sea" ) To 10/28/2002 is 14818 days
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From 7/24/1944 ( premiere US film "The Seventh Cross" ) To 10/28/2002 is 21280 days
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38 WCPD 1874 REMARKS IN ALAMOGORDO, NEW MEXICO
Document Category Addresses and Remarks
President George W. Bush
Event Date October 28, 2002
Notes The President spoke at 9 a.m. at the Riner Steinhoff Soccer Complex
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George W. Bush
Remarks in Alamogordo, New Mexico
October 28, 2002
The President. Thank you all very much. Hola.
Audience members. Hola.
The President. Si. Thank you all for coming today. It's a beautiful day here. Of course, every day is a beautiful day in New Mexico. I love to come to a part of the country where the cowboy hat is—the cowboy hat, instead of the tie, is a part of the work uniform. It kind of reminds me of home, right around the corner from here.
They tell me I'm the first President ever to come to Alamogordo.
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Harry S. Truman
XXXIII President of the United States: 1945-1953
147 - Letter to Senator Maybank on the Atomic Energy Program.
May 29, 1952
[Released May 29, 1952. Dated May 28, 1952]
My dear Mr. Chairman:
I understand that, in the course of recent hearings on the Atomic Energy Commission's 1953 budget, members of the Senate Committee on Appropriations expressed concern over the effect on total Federal expenditures of the proposed expansion of the atomic energy program, as well as its relationship to our total defense effort. I share your concern about the magnitude of Federal expenditures. The cost of the expansion program will be substantial. We must nevertheless continue our efforts to buttress the security of this country and of the free world. Not to do so invites disaster. I am convinced, therefore, that we must and that we can accomplish the proposed expansion in our atomic energy program. However, to make doubly sure, I recently have asked the members of the special committee of the National Security Council which I designated initially to review and make recommendations on this expansion program to reconsider it in the light of existing conditions.
This reconsideration by the NSC committee members clearly verities that this expansion program is integral to the necessary strengthening of our military defenses; current international conditions require that we proceed with dispatch to so strengthen our defenses; and the program is within the capabilities of the Commission and the expected availability of raw materials. The manpower, power and construction materials required for the new facilities can be made available without unduly adverse effects on the rest of the defense program or on our economy generally. I am sending to you copies of the letters in which the members of the special committee express their views upon the proposed expansion program.
The program has been carefully reviewed in order to bring its total cost down to a practicable minimum. Every effort has been made to exclude facilities not essential to achieving the expanded production goals. The presently estimated total capital cost of about 4.2 billion dollars, including the cost of power facilities to be constructed by the Tennessee Valley Authority, is substantially below the initial estimate of 5.4 billion dollars for the program. A substantial saving has been accomplished through further studies by the Atomic Energy Commission. Other cost reductions have been achieved in the course of analyses by the Commission and the Bureau of the Budget.
While appropriations of nearly 3.1 billion dollars are needed in the fiscal year 1953 to enable the Commission and the Tennessee Valley Authority to move ahead on the planned expansion of facilities, it is estimated that actual expenditures in that year will amount to only about 650 million dollars; the remainder will need to be obligated for construction contracts and equipment procurement that will not be sufficiently advanced to require actual cash outlay until subsequent years. In view of the action thus far on the 1953 annual appropriation bills, it does not appear that the expenditures for this expansion program will serve to increase total Federal expenditures in the fiscal year 1953 above the figure shown in the 1953 Budget.
I wish to urge upon you and your committee the importance to this Nation and the rest of the free world of undertaking this expansion program without delay.
Sincerely yours,
HARRY S. TRUMAN
[Honorable Burnet R. Maybank, Chairman, Subcommittee on Independent Offices, Senate Committee on Appropriations, Washington 25, D.C.]
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BOEING KB-29M AND B-29MR
Posted 6/26/2009
The Boeing KB-29M, briefly designated KB-29K, was a modification of a production B-29 or B-29A for in-flight refueling (IFR). The B-29MR, briefly designated B-29L, was also a modification of a production B-29 or B-29A used as a receiver aircraft for the refueling operation. The first system used required the refueling aircraft to unreel the refueling hose to the receiver aircraft, which would snag the hose and reel it in. The hose was then connected to internal fuel cells and fuel transfer began. The system was quite awkward but saw operational use in the late 1940s. The most famous use of this technique was for the flight of the B-50A Lucky Lady II, the first aircraft to complete a non-stop around the world flight.
Later, some KB-29Ms were fitted with more efficient probe and drogue in-flight refueling systems. The KB-29M unreeled the refueling hose which had a donut-shaped para-drogue attached to the end. The receiving aircraft had a refueling probe mounted on the nose or wingtip and the pilot flew his aircraft's probe into the refueling hose receptacle for fuel transfer. The first combat IFR was accomplished using this technique on May 29, 1952, when 12 F-84Es of the 159th Fighter-Bomber Squadron flew a bombing mission from Itazuke Air Base, Japan, against targets at Sariwon, North Korea.
The probe and drogue in-flight refueling technique is still used today primarily by helicopters.
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Tom Clancy
Rainbow Six
CHAPTER 8
COVERAGE
"Dr. Brightling?" Her secretary stuck his head in the door.
"Yes, Roy?".
"You still want me to show you those faxes-like the one you're reading, I mean?" Roy Gibbons asked.
"Oh, yes-,,
"But those people are card-carrying nuts."
"Not really. I like some of the things they do," Carol replied, tossing the fax in her trash can. She'd save their idea for some future date.
"Fair enough, doc." The head disappeared back into the outer office. The next thing in her pile was pretty important, a report of procedures for shutting down nuclear power reactors, and the subsequent safety of the shut-down reactor systems: how long before environmental factors might attack and corrode the internal items, and what environmental damage could result from it. Yes, this was very important stuff, and fortunately the index appended to it showed data on individual reactors across the country. She popped another starlight mint into her mouth and leaned forward, setting the papers flat on the desktop so that she could stare straight down at them for reading purposes.
"This seems to work," Steve said quietly.
"How many strands fit inside?" Maggie asked.
"Anywhere from three to ten."
"And how large is the overall package?"
"Six microns. Would you believe it? The packaging is white in color, so it reflects light pretty well, especially UV radiation, and in a water-spray environment, it's just about invisible." The individual capsules couldn't be seen with the naked eye, and only barely with an optical microscope. Better still, their weight was such that they'd float in air about the same as dust particles, as readily breathable as secondhand smoke in a singles bar. Once in the body, the coating would dissolve, and allow release of the Shiva strands into the lungs or the upper GI, where they could go to work.
"Water soluble?" Maggie asked.
"Slowly, but faster if there's anything biologically active in the water, like the trace hydrochloric acid in saliva, for example. Wow, we could have really made money from the Iraqis with this one, kiddo - or anybody, who wants to play bio-war in the real world."
Their company had invented the technology, working on an NIH grant designed to develop an easier way than needles to deliver vaccines. Needles required semiskilled use. The new technique used electrophoresis to wrap insignificantly tiny quantities of protective gel around even smaller amounts of airborne bioactive agents. That would allow people to ingest vaccines with a simple drink rather than the more commonly used method of inoculation. If they ever fielded a working AIDS vaccine, this would be the method of choice for administering it in Africa where countries lacked the infrastructure to do much of anything. Steve had just proven that the same technology could be used to deliver active virus with the same degree of safety and reliability. Or almost proven it.
"How do we proof-test it?" Maggie asked.
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The Seattle Times
Sunday, August 2, 1998
An Action-Packed Summer Read -- Tom Clancy's Latest Storms The Shores
By Melinda Bargreen
Seattle Times Staff Critic
"Rainbox Six" by Tom Clancy Putnam, $27.95
Rumblings in the distance are growing louder, as a phalanx of trucks approaches local bookstores. There is a diesel storm rising.
Tom Clancy is back.
Yes, fans, the latest humongous Clancy doorstop of a book - at 752 pages, a veritable Cortez Kennedy among action-thrillers - officially hits stores tomorrow.
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Cornwall, Clancy Leading Summer Charge
Los Angeles Times - Los Angeles, Calif.
Author: PAUL D. COLFORD
Date: Jul 2, 1998
Abstract (Document Summary)
Tom Clancy's "Rainbow Six" (Putnam) will be available starting Aug. 3. Clancy, one of the heavyweight champs of commercial fiction and master of the techno-thriller, is delivering his first hardcover novel since 1996. He is bringing back John Clark, the former Navy SEAL from "Without Remorse," who takes on a maniacal bunch of terrorists this time around. First printing: around 2 million copies.
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Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein, also spelled Saddam Husayn, in full Saddam Hussein al-Tikriti (born April 28, 1937, Tikrit, Iraq—died Dec. 30, 2006, Baghdad), president of Iraq (1979–2003)
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